meditations

New Digs

One of the really great things that has happened in my life is that in the course of relocating from Seattle I got to realize a “life dream” and bought a really special historic home. Mind you, I still miss Seattle in a lot of ways, particularly my friends, family, and favorite restaurants. (BTW, the best restaurant in Seattle is Nell’s, which is on the east side of Greenlake. Check it out when next you’re in town.)

But the house, which turned 100 this year, fills me with pride and I don’t plan to ever give it up, at least so long as I’m hale enough to navigate the stairs and maintain it. The architecture (externally) is Jacobean, which is sometimes called English Baronial. The inside is very much Arts & Craft. I’l talk more about it in upcoming posts — with several little renovation projects underway the house is much on my mind — but for now will just post a picture.

Back to Blogging

So since the start of the year a friend of mine has been encouraging me to start making entries in this blog again. That’s definitely something which had already been on my mind as, particularly with the upcoming election there have been a lot of thoughts I’ve been wanting to share. But I held off for a while, in part because for the first six months of the year all I would have done is rant about Hillary Clinton, and for the last four all I would have done is rant about Sara Palin (well... to be fair, McCain would have come in for a little ranting as well). Thankfully, in a few days that will all be behind us — unless McCain really does “have them just where we want ‘em” — and I can focus on more positive things. Like the housing crisis!

But there really are a lot of good things going on in my life and I’m looking forward to sharing my thoughts on more than a few subjects including, yes, the housing crisis.